Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition

Great game. The combat feels satisfying and the series only gets better from here!

holds up 15 years later and still the greatest superhero game of all time

This has got to be in everyones top ten best games ever. First off it is batman and hes got to be one of the most, if not the most, popular hero in any fictional universe. Add that to the fact that you are literally dropped not only into arkham, but the asylum itself that houses some of our favourite villains. So just from the word go it already is the best looking batman game ever and really immerses you right into that world. then you come to the combat system... it is just perfect for batman so i thinkfull it was a batman the discovered it first. As far as i am concerned to it is the firstactually good batman game to come... i honestly cat think of a batman game before this that i actually enjoyed. so this was a breath of fresh air that i love come back to and playing it again. This will be my first play through on pc... but my fifth play through in total and i am sure i am going to love it just as much as i did when it first came out.

yours truly god gamer

Still in my opinion one of the best Batman games, the original of the Arkham series tells a brilliant story and if you loved the Animated series you'll recognise several voices including Kevin Conroy, Arleen Sorkis and Mark Hamill.

The gameplay is easy to pick up and once mastered you will feel like the Batman.

The first good Batman video game ever made, and it was GREAT! Now, this version has a few graphical bugs, and the graphics aren't as good as the original release, but these bugs do not affect gameplay at all, and this is still a great game. If you like Batman, I would strongly recommend this game. Get the original release if you can, but if not, this one does the job.

I got the game on sale for fun. Im a big batman fan. This game is a classic and obviously theres a reason for it. No spoilers but scarecrow and croc were really fun, the combat might be a bit difficult for beginners (I fumbled so hard) but you get used to it.

One of my absolute favorite games of all time. The joker is just too epic. Arkham Knight and the others are cool and all that, but this first game may just have nailed it perfectly.

Why do so many people love the character of Batman?
Batman stories are the ultimate tale of turning pain and suffering into something positive. It’s a story everyone can relate to because the world can suck, and everyone has dark days of their own. People admire his passion to overcome all of this pain, how he never gives up, never lets his pain define or control him. Everyone feels feelings of fear, anger, depression. It’s in everyone’s nature as a human being to feel those things whether you like it or not. It’s what you choose to do with that pain is what defines you as a human. Batman chose to turn all of those negative emotions of his parents death into a symbol of hope that can bring people together. Hope that Batman can save you from pain. Batman is what Bruce Wayne became to deal with the tragedy of life, and he’s fighting for his identity. Yes Bruce Wayne is a flawed crazy person, he is at times mean, stubborn, abusive, dark, brooding, and damaged. But deep down he is still a good person, he fights to make sure no one will ever have that one bad day that he had again. His mission is not about finding a way to kill evil but to redeem it. His mission is an impossible task, maybe he should kill madmen like the joker. What makes him fascinating is the fact he has that moral code that he never crosses that line. It’s too easy to kill and be done with it, but Batman never makes the easy choice. Whatever challenge life throws at him, he always tries his hardest to never let that make him bitter, or angry at the world. A lesson I take from Batman is “it’s not who you are underneath, it’s what you do that defines you.”
So yeah, I liked the game

This is one of the best games. It makes me feel like Batman. It holds up in today's world.

The critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham Asylum defines what a Batman game, and to a larger extent, a superhero game should be. It begins with Batman arriving at the infamous Arkham Asylum, a psychiatric hospital that houses the most dangerous and clinically insane inmates in Gotham City. Among them is, of course, the Joker. Soon enough the Joker has escaped and takes control of the asylum while releasing all the other criminals in the process. We must then navigate the dark and atmospheric asylum, from its cramped gloomy halls to its open outdoor areas replete with gothic facades, using Batman's superior detective skills to find clues and carry the narrative forward. Along the way we come across many notable characters, as well as some of Batman's most fearsome rivals. Batman's portrayal in this game is both iconic and layered, voiced by Kevin Conroy. Likewise, the Joker, voiced by Mark Hamill, is a constant thorn in Batman's side and is the perfect rendition for this game.

Visually, this game was far ahead of its time and remains impressive to this day. Environments are rich, with great lighting effects and textures. With the views of Gotham City in the distance, the sense of isolation is foreboding. The character models are beautifully detailed and represent the quintessential look of these classic heroes and villains. The game has a high sound quality design, greatly adding to the immersive experience. Sound effects are spot on, and the music ebbs and flows with the pacing and arrival or departure from certain areas. The aformentioned voice acting is another highlight, with stellar performances for all the major leads.

The fluid and dynamic free-flow combat system is intuitive but also complex. Combat is very rewarding and Batman can chain combos with various moves and counters as well as integrate his gadgets. Taking on a room full of thugs and laying them all out is so satisfying. The combat challenges will really put your skills to the test, and completing them all will require advanced proficiency of this combat system. Batman can also deal with situations through stealth mechanics, allowing him to strike from the shadows, hang off various objects and take down enemies one by one as they frantically try to figure out what is happening.

Arkham Asylum is the blueprint for future Batman sequels and sets the bar high for subsequent superhero games. The story, character representations, visuals, sound, and gameplay are all top notch. I can repeatedly return to this game and consider it a must play for those that have yet to do so.

The 100% Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition Review

Conclusion:

A very well paced beat em up style of game, great progression and plot.

Good short story, Interactive World, Runs great on old PCs.

A very cool game with a great array of characters in the story as well in the Bio´s. The story and the whole game is just very cool and well made. The fights are not too easy and rather hard (especially on hard). The gadgets and the riddles are also very cool, even though most people dont like these collis. All in one a really cool game with a cool story and great ambience. I can really highly recommend it.

Amazing game, even though it is a quite old but it was so fine that I had so much fun in it

Its insanely fun and the story is rich and well written.
10/10

Still fun!
Very simple but satisfying combat and OK story.
The stealth is fun, completionist stuff is fun, overall fun game.
Would recommend, only problem is the NVIDIA icon in the corner that I never figured about how to get rid of.

8.5/10
great game

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☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

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☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

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☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

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☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☐ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

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☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

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☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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The game doesn't work on modern hardware which sucks because this game is really good :(

7/10 - excellent gameplay but kinda ugly aesthetics

One of the best Batman game ever to exist but it is super creepy and scary sometimes but i still love it is probably next to Arkham Knight in terms of storyline and in terms of graphics it definetly behind Sucide Squad and Arkham Knight.

For it being made in 2009 the graphics are honestly great. Its a very fun game with unique abilities that I don't see much in other games and love when I do. It's a classic and for its price it was great. It's not an unforgettable experience but it was still for the most part good. 8.8/10

This game is almost 15 years old but it's still incredible! I paid only $8 for the Arkham Collection, that's amazing for 3 great games!

Genuinely fun game to play. The collectible & riddle are annoying to find tho. Took me forever just to find half of the collectible, same goes for the riddles. I'm just gonna watch YT video for the secret scenes & audio.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Achievement Completion: 100%

This was my first ever Batman game and I can say with confidence that I have zero regrets from diving into this series and playing the game for myself instead of just seeing clips of this game. This game combines great elements of stealth, strategy, and flowing combat as you take down all sorts of thugs and minions alike whether it's through careful approaches to an encounter or the loud, guns blazing approach. Guns in this instance being his fists. I highly recommend for anyone eyeing this game to take a dive headfirst into this experience as the Dark Knight.

Great Batman game in my opinion, sure would have hit the spot at release if I had a PC that could've ran it 100 years ago. Challenges are hard af and made me reflect on how gruesomely boring they make the game feel when I have so many others at my disposal. Rather short but I bought it at a discount, my suggestion for you is to do the same.

One of the best games ever. The Game play and controls are out of the world. The Gaming mechanics really make us feel that We are BatMan

Fantastic, very engaging game, my forth completion across multiple platforms and it's still addicting - everything except challenges for me is entertaining (even "collectibles") definitely worth trying

Good story but moderate game play experience, too much Bane-fight in the game.

This is probably the best adaptation of Batman I have seen from comic and shows.
I don't know how they pulled this off so well there really isn't any downtime, it's all meat and no fat that's my take away. If I where to tell you that this game was good it would be a massive understatement. This really is as good as people say.

Why does Rocksteady make good games? Are they talented?

I learnt about this game from r/BatmanArkham, and after losing my mind there for a while I finally got the game and I understand why people love it so much - it has action that feels epic while still being challenging and does a good job about making you feel like Batman.

THIS GAME WAS SUPER FUN! I love the stealth mission because the fun dailog the npc say when your picking off one by one, and the combat is smooth and pretty cool to.

Great game
fun story
good gameplay

Feels empty if your trying to get all the riddler quests done after the story but it's still pretty fun.

Cool game, worth 20-30$, many newer games with better graphics that are costing more everywhere are less fun than this game

great combat very fun if you like DC/batman great story

A must have for anyone that likes Batman. riveting gameplay, awesome graphics, still holds up in 2024. Definetly worth a play.

Way better than the "Remastered" Return to Arkham Collection version they released on PS4. This game still looks amazing even without the graphics mods. Runs pretty stable, had an insane frame drop in the bell tower after one of the scarecrow segments but it went back to normal.

a sound game with good story and wonderful gameplay and so beautiful characters <3
9/10

Not the first time I've played the game and it won't be the last if your running windows 10 or 11 it takes some fiddling to get it running but if you go into community discussions you can find instructions on how to do it. the Arkham trilogy is always a good time fun combat and plenty of things to have you snooping around in corners trying to find every last piece of story or to best the Riddler.

Some of the most memorable moments I've ever experienced. A must for anyone looking to get into this style of game.

For me it is an amazing game because it is easy to find Riddlers riddles and the story pretty damn good. I like the design of the island and the size so everything was just the right size. the combat is amazing but I am more into stealth myself but this game is a must try from my view. 10/10

I really liked this game. The graphics are really good for the time. There are some good boss fights although the last boss fight is little bit of a let down for me I was expecting more. I'll certainly re play this game in the future

Amazing game as always. First played on console back in the day (and the demo back in the day at Wal-mart where you had to break your neck to look up at the screen). Cast, story, and music are great and the combat/movement/stealth are pretty good. A few aspects can be iffy sometimes but they had to start somewhere. Solid 9/10

First time playing Arkham series and it was great, very fun combat mechanic and nice dark atmosphere. Would be better if they let us use the armored suit on campaign mode along with joker as DLC that idk why they removed it. The combat challenge kinda painful but once you master the combat mechanic and the pattern of the enemies it become lot easier.

While the story may not be particularly deep, Batman Arkham Asylum still massively succeeds at adapting the tone and atmosphere of some of the best iterations of the character. Combined with excellent attention to detail and gameplay, and graphics that still hold up today, it's easy to see why a franchise was spawned.

Just a good Batman game that references the old Spider-Man games from the first PS. In some places you get very tired of endless mindless fighting with mobs. The final boss is much easier than the boss before it.

Best of the OG batman games built with memorable characters, great combat and great use of the map for back forth travel

Great game to introduce someone into the Batman Arkham Series! Overall, I felt that the gameplay was quite short but the story was very interesting! Controls felt very smooth for a game that was made in 2009 and the graphics look like it has aged well 15 years later! I recommend this game especially to Batman fans!